February 18, 19, 24, 25, and 26, 8:00 P.M.

DRAMATIC WOMEN PRESENTS
SANTA BARBARA CONFIDENTIAL
AN EVENING OF NEW SHORT PLAYS BY SANTA BARBARA WRITERS

What really goes on behind the scenes in Paradise?

Santa Barbara Confidential, an evening of new short plays set in Santa Barbara, will take audiences everywhere from Montecito bedrooms and Riviera patios to the thrift stores and street life of lower State Street.

The production will run for five performances only, February 18, 19, 24, 25, and 26.

Nine Santa Barbara writers have taken a new comic and dramatic look at our town's life and circumstances--what we're doing here, how we got here in the first place, and where we may be headed.

A cast of more than thirty Santa Barbara-based actors, male and female, old and young, will bring these new works to life, with music provided by composer-pianist Ron Zecher. Producer Bob Potter promises that the evening will provide plenty of laughs and revelations, and "some people you may recognize--your neighbors, or maybe even yourself."


The line-up of nine plays features both well established writers and new voices:

Street Dreams
by Linda Stewart-Oaten, directed by Michelle Osborne
Santa Barbara street kids are looking for some spare change and a little hope.
CAST: Jason Love, Katie Soliel

Women Who Poeticize Too Much
by Terre Ouwehand, directed by Gretchen Icenogle
A therapy session in search of ineffable answers--five visionary women perplex a male therapist.
CAST: Shelly Burkert, Jess Jestrab, Vivien Minton,Ethel Scar, Lynn Schabert, Leslie Story

Rex
by Gib Johnson, directed by Corrine Mugley
The computer revolution claims a victim on the SB Riviera.
CAST: Dick Berman, Arlene Genis

The Pathfinder
by Stephan Lackner, directed by Erica Kylander-Clark
SB history comes to life as a brave woman decides not to pass a message.
CAST: Philip Newman, Wilson Smith, David Stanbra, Linda Williams

Newcomers
by Barbara Sachs, directed by John Robert Kocur
Santa Barbara is a great place for a fresh start - or is it?
CAST: Eric Fuhrman, Karen Hansen, Susan Jackson

Fast Forward
by Michael Smith, directed by Maurice Lord
I never intended to end up in this town, but somehow that's what happened.
CAST: Carl Ander, David Brainard, Kinsy Packard

Omega Night
by Sojourner Kincaid-Rolle, directed by Joshua Kashinsky
A thrift shop full of old memories and fresh possibilities.
CAST: Sam Muir, Robert Olsen

Screaming in the Dark
by Kinsey Packard, directed by John Morrison
We spend minutes, hours, days, trying to connect to each other, but the reality is...
CAST: Brad Chapin, Kim Chueh, Mandy Cimino, Laurel Marlantes, Ryan Weeden

Bedtime in Montecito
by Ellen K. Anderson, directed by Donna Stone
...And when the day is over, we dream our fantasies together - no matter how bizarre.
CAST: Nancy Collinge, Vivien Minton

This evening of original plays by locally based writers will mark the seventh production at CST by Dramatic Women, a theater company founded in 1993 to explore and promote the active participation of women in all areas of theater. Two previous shows, Love Songs of the Barbarians (1996) and Women in Shorts (1998), have also featured short plays by Santa Barbara writers in anthology format. Dramatic Women's other productions have been Barbed Wire Under Your Armpits (1994), Saint Barbara in the Flesh (1995), Hula Whores (1995), and Holes in Their Soles (1997), all at Center Stage Theater.

PHOTO FROM LEFT: Michael Smith, Stephan Lackner,
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Linda Stewart-Oaten, Kinsey Packard,
Gib Johnson, Terre Ouwehand, Ellen K. Anderson
Photo: Rod Rolle ... Click photo for enlargement.

TICKETS: $12.00 General Admission; $10.00 Students
Opening night show & gala reception with authors and cast, Friday 2/18 only: $25.00

Box Office Information






BOX OFFICE INFORMATION
The Center Stage Theater Box Office is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5:00 P.M., and one hour before each performance. See below for location.

Tickets may also be purchased by telephone using
Visa, Master Card, and American Express.
Phone (805) 963-0408 (V / TDD).

LOCATION AND DIRECTIONS
Center Stage Theater is located in the Paseo Nuevo Center, upstairs at the intersection of Chapala and De la Guerra Streets, Santa Barbara, California.

Take Highway 101 to Carrillo Street, exit and turn toward the mountains (northbound turns right, southbound turns left). Proceed to Chapala Street (fourth light) and turn right. Proceed 1-1/2 blocks and turn left into either of two entrances to Paseo Nuevo. Park near the elevator, or proceed to roof-level parking.